Trans Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis made this statement as he thanked his Conservative colleagues for their ‘incredible support’ ‘The parliamentary party had a photo in the chamber and then we went for dinner together. It was nice, especially for those of us in the ‘2019 intake’ of MPs who haven’t done anything like that before. …
Sopranos drug henchman, actor Paul Herman, has died aged 76. It was his birthday. Paul had appeared in many gangster films including Goodfellas and The Irishman. But he was best known for playing the role of ‘Beansie’ Gaeta in the The Sopranos. Herman’s character was eventually promoted to chief of operations in a heroin trafficking …
Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse… well I’ve outlived all that then. To be honest, the best thing I could do now is keep strutting my calcifying knees and bones and act like I have some kind of faded elegance. But it may just all be a soupçon of memory of the …
When we first became involved in the world of Central and Eastern Europe so many years ago, we knew we had found a new home. At least for a while. We moved to Poprad in the Spis region of Slovakia and in so many ways it was like a fantasy – a good one. There …
Macabre memorabilia is a curious and often unsavoury part of being a collector … Hitler’s racing car for instance brought more £10m, death masks of Napoleon, Beethoven, Shakespeare and Goethe are always in demand – and “killer clown” John Wayne Gacy, has his own art dealer. Murderabillia has a place in history, collectors put together, …
The drummer with the Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, has died aged 50. The band were “devastated by the tragic and untimely loss” . No cause of death was given. Hawkins played with Foo Fighters for more than two decades, joining after they finished making their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape. The band is on …
Yes, we’ve become an island, been isolated and now face being bombed by a tiny madman … so, when we finally come back with three heads, Madge Simpson hair colour and a sheep-bleat instead of a megaphone of protest, are we going to let the Customer Experience yobs continue to help us, support us, have …
It’s my blarty and I’ll cry if I want to … you would do too ‘cos of customers like you… From the archives but sadly still relevant today. It all began with the advent of customer services – that last bastion of lost ambition, pointless platitudes and inverted aggression, the industry that seems only to …
This young Ukrainian volunteer, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, died as she delivered food to a dog shelter outside of Kyiv. Anastasiia Yalanskaya was filming her fight for the animals when she was killed. It has been suggested she may have been traced through her social media posts. Anastasiia’s Instagram post was posted hours before her death. The …
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